I'm 20 months into Long Covid (mostly just fatigue these days, but still quite limiting) and.... they now think the 'bad back' that has been bothering me all year might actually be Ankylosing Spondylitis, kicked off by the initial COVID infection. FFS. More tests soon. 😐
Wear a mask!
Double AZ jabbed and had the Pfizer booster yesterday. Felt cranky enough to take a LFT (neg) but feel shit today, can’t even face driving. Is this a good or a bad thing?
I felt much rougher after the booster (Tuesday for me) than the first two jabs, also az, even took some paracetamol. After a day or so felt fine but my arm is still really tender where they jabbed it.
Cheers. That's reassuring. Today however is cancelled
Double AZ jabbed and had the Pfizer booster yesterday. Felt cranky enough to take a LFT (neg) but feel shit today, can’t even face driving. Is this a good or a bad thing?
It sounds pretty normal and not, as I understand it, good or bad, it's just your body's general immune system reacting to foreign stuff being injected into it. I had a Pfizer booster on Tuesday, felt knackered and achy all day on Wednesday. Back to normal by Thursday morning.
Well this absolutely sucks.
Day 11 now and the fatigue is unbelievable. I'm back working from home but the brain fog is also a huge thing. I'm struggling to concentrate and given most of my day is complex maths, my inability to grasp the numbers I'm looking at is a real challenge. Walking up the stairs still has me gasping for breath. To go from racing an EWS a few weeks ago and riding/ training 4-5 days a week to being absolute floored from the moment I wake up until I go to sleep. And to top it off the complete lack of taste or smell robs the last remaining joy I can get from food or drink.
You need as much rest as you can get! Take some sick leave if you can, annual leave if that's not possible, don't do too much around the house, spend as much of your waking time as possible horizontal on the sofa, don't drive or do anything that requires concentration, get to bed stupidly early. It's really shit!
Do i need a pcr test?
Day 1 sore throat, approx 24hrs
Day 2 slight temperature fluctuations and sneezing 12hrs in bed
Day 3 streaming nose, sore throat gone.
Dsy 4 coughing double cough, unproductive, rasping, causing return of sore throat, 14hrs in bed
Day 5 coughing stpped, brain gets confused by telly, 15 hours in bed.
2 x lfts clear, coughing alot less but generating nice thick greenies
Off work on holiday so no contact with anyone
Yes
Singletrackmind: that does 💯 sound like COVID. But weird that the LFTs don't trigger.
Ah balls, that’s me testing positive too. Woke up with a banging headache and thinking ‘who turned the heating up?’. I’ve spent most of the day in bed asleep between Skype calls. 10 days solo in an upstairs bedroom whilst my wife parents 2 little kids solo is going to be a pain in the arse for me but brutal for her.
Wear a mask and avoid gatherings / parties.
Booked pcr last night for 0930.
20 miles away but earliest and easiest drive through
Feel better today, after another marathon 14hrs in bed. Appetite gone, but im not burning any fuel. Taste and smell both normal.
However, doing anything tires me out. I feel ok, hoover for 20 mins, then need a rest.
Was very organised drive through test centre, and busy, constant arrival and departure of cars. With maybe 50 on site at any one the time.
And whats with the lumpy eyes, i swear there are lumps on the inside of my eyelids.
I had a Pfizer booster on Tuesday, felt knackered and achy all day on Wednesday. Back to normal by Thursday morning.
Ditto but with the moderna booster, knocked me sideways for 24hrs.
And whats with the lumpy eyes, i swear there are lumps on the inside of my eyelids.
"The World Health Organisation has since updated their list of ‘less common’ symptoms of the disease to include conjunctivitis and red eyes, as recent reports have suggested a link between conjunctivitis, coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2) and the corresponding disease, COVID-19."
Do i need a pcr test?
Day 1 sore throat, approx 24hrs
Day 2 slight temperature fluctuations and sneezing 12hrs in bed
Day 3 streaming nose, sore throat gone.
Dsy 4 coughing double cough, unproductive, rasping, causing return of sore throat, 14hrs in bed
Day 5 coughing stpped, brain gets confused by telly, 15 hours in bed.
2 x lfts clear, coughing alot less but generating nice thick greenies
Off work on holiday so no contact with anyone
I'm amazed you need to ask.
Day 3 since testing positive and it really kicked in overnight. 1st couple of days felt like a bad cold.
Fever kicked in during the night. Sweating buckets even without the duvet. Resting heart rate is up at 70 whereas my usual is low 50s. Massively fatigued and walking up the stairs has me gasping. Sense of taste and smell disappeared yesterday. Thankfully no cough but I’m extremely congested, sneezing constantly and have a lot of sinus pain.
The Mrs is on day 6 and she’s properly floored. I’m at least up and moving, she can’t get out of bed.
Day 4 after testing positive for me I had the night sweats with cramps which would swing into shivers and muscle aches, this happened on nights 4, 5 and mildly on 6 after postive, in the days once I was up, fed and hydrated I was okay except for tiredness.
Didn't lose smell and taste till day 5 or 6, taste has come back after 5 days, sense of smell is weak, I never realised how much smell helped me enjoy food even down to packs of crisps!
I’m amazed you need to ask.
Why? It's not like we are in the middle of a pandemic where the symptoms match any of the ones they listed or anything is it?
I think I must be lucky then. Booster was moderna, and I got the flu vaccine too, that went in the left arm and was pretty sore for about 3 days and the moderna went in the right arm and that was only slightly sore for 2 days. No other symptoms whatsoever.
Mrs had the Moderna booster and has been fine. I'm still knackered a week after the Pf booster. My son, asthmatic, occasional shingles sufferer and works for the NHS (only 2 jabs) has just had two positive results. I'm now knackered and worried.
Pcr came back clear. Just abit of man flu then.
And there goes my sense of smell and taste, completely gone. This sucks.
Got booster and flu at the same time. Slightly sore arm next day and slight fuzziness, gone the day after. Posting just because this typical experience is less likely to make this thread than the more unlucky ones.
I never realised how much smell helped me enjoy food even down to packs of crisps!
Your sense of taste is almost entirely down to your sense of smell; you can only differentiate betewen salty, sweet or bitter via the tongue; all the nuance of taste beyond that comes from your sense of smell.
Day 15 and still pretty crap really, two steps forward one step back is the general gist from day to day. Smell and taste returning but nowhere near normal, coffee tastes like burnt toast for example. Got a nice little cough now which I thought I'd escaped. What a very tedious experience in general.
21 months of living like a f***ing hermit and the 5 year old brings it home from school. She seems to hopefully be on the mend now after a couple of days of fever and a chickenpox like rash which is fading. To say I'm incandescent with fury is an understatement. Positive LFT this morning, but ran 0.5C raised temperature Friday night. Am going to be pissed off when/if my smell/taste goes as I already have other minor neurological things that I'd rather not be worrying about adding to with some more damage.
Wife and I tested positive last night. Took two lfts each and even then only one came back with the faintest of lines for me. PCRs booked for this morning.
Annoyingly we’d been away for the weekend with my sister’s family and our parents. Arse. Thankfully they’re all triple jabbed.
Just feels like a snotty, sneezy cold to me.
So my triple jabbed mum now has it. Has all the same symptoms I and my wife have. Unsurprising really considering she spent he weekend with us. LFT yesterday +ve; took a PCR yesterday, result this morning: -ve; another LFT this morning +ve. I suspect the PCR is erroneous.
I'm supposedly booked in for my booster next Tuesday. anyone know what the implications for that are give I'll just be a day out of quarantine?
I’m supposedly booked in for my booster next Tuesday. anyone know what the implications for that are give I’ll just be a day out of quarantine?
They asked me if I'd tested positive or had symptoms in the last 14 days, so likely they'll not allow it - check your booking info as this should say too.
“The World Health Organisation has since updated their list of ‘less common’ symptoms of the disease to include conjunctivitis and red eyes, as recent reports have suggested a link between conjunctivitis, coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2) and the corresponding disease, COVID-19.”
Bugger! I was wondering what I had, 1 x negative LFT and a few 'non' COVID symptoms like conjunctivitis and intermittent yet 'productive' coughing made me think Adenovirus (via the magic of Googling symptoms). Our 4 year old has a nasty cough too but I wouldn't call it 'persistent'.
Impossible to know! How much can you trust an LFT?
Well our 9 year old brought it back from school, shes currently barricaded in her room. We picked it up on an lft and subsequent pcr on Tuesday. We were all in the car together Saturday and Sunday so have a question. Should I count the 5ish days for incubation from Sunday when we were last in the car or from Tuesday?? Concerned here due to my history of lymphoma and subsequent treatment thereof.
I’m supposedly booked in for my booster next Tuesday. anyone know what the implications for that are give I’ll just be a day out of quarantine?
I had my booster today, but my wife missed her appointment as she is currently positive (and suffering a bit). They told me she shouldn't get the booster until at least 28 days after testing positive...
Concerned here due to my history of lymphoma and subsequent treatment thereof.
Is this recent treatment, or historic? Unless you are currently immunosuppressed, would you be extra vulnerable?
(disclaimer: I was treated for lymphoma a couple of decades ago.)
I'm 3 weeks from positive test, I'm pretty sure was Omicron, but either way worst flu of my life
Got my first mtb ride tomorrow morning, just short local loop, but feeling up to it
Fk covid
Impossible to know! How much can you trust an LFT?
Not much at all. Get a PCR
@martinhutch, I completed treatment 4 years ago now but was/am classed as immunosuppressed wrt to Covid and was on the shielding list last year. The whole guidance thing is a cluster...
Ah right - fair enough. Worth a call to your haematology team though, I wouldn't expect you to be significantly immunocompromised this long after the end of treatment, and they may be able to reassure you. Have you had the three doses of vaccine rather than two (prior to booster?) You may actually be in a better position than the rest of us!
With regard to incubation, it's not a fixed five-day thing really. Yes, your daughter could well have been contagious last weekend, but you won't know for certain, and while average incubation is 5 to 6 days, it can be less or more.
Mum was in our van with us on Friday, she was miserable and coughing by Sunday morning. I wonder if the incubation time for omicron is very much reduced?
Thanks for the info. Yeah 28 days seems to be the guidance for interval between testing and vaccination. I found it eventually on the booking website.
Thanks @martinhutch I've had the two primary vaccines (AZ) and a booster of Pfizer. I had heard somewhere 3 primary doses and a booster was going to be recommended but never actually saw that written anywhere.
Appreciate the uncertainty around exposure-incubation-symptoms so was guestimating at around 5 days.
Good to hear your keeping well.
Could be that you are no longer regarded as likely immunocompromised by your GP so didn't get on that list. It was all a bit confusing.
Good to hear your keeping well.
Yeah, just checked, actually 30 years since all clear next year. I remember it always being at the back of my mind when I was at your point, but that fades away. Sounds like you're doing well, modern medicine is bloody great, isn't it?
Partner tested positive on Monday, thought she just had a cold on the weekend but LFT clear as day, PCR straight away and result on Tuesday. I got an inconclusive PCR, then positive PCR today with a positive LFT inbetween, so I've probably had it since Tuesday.
Not boosted yet because despite booking as soon as eligible no appointments until January.
Partner just has had cold like symptoms throughout. I have been ok but feeling very fatigued this evening. Will see how it goes I guess.
Can't help thinking this is probably Delta, so will come out of isolation straight into the Omicron wave.
I wonder if the incubation time for omicron is very much reduced?
Yes, that's the general view. I've read today that, compared to Delta, Omicron is better at multiplying in nasal tissue by a factor of 70. Which would explain a lot. The report also said Omicron was 10 times slower in lung tissue. Hence why there may be less pneumonia with Omicron.
The World Health Organisation has since updated their list of ‘less common’ symptoms of the disease to include conjunctivitis and red eyes,
Ah. This explains the bizarre red eye I had for several days when I was ill
My wife thought she had a bad cold last week after a get together in London. 3 days of LFTs all came back negative. Sunday morning before we take the kids to football we all did tests and she was positive (the rest of us negative). Took PCRs later that day and the results arrived Monday morning confirming things.
We both had our boosters booked for Monday morning too. Obviously she cancelled, but after another negative test I went along and had my jab.
That evening I felt a bit off. Heavy legs probably best describes it. I presumed it was just side effects of the booster. By 3am I was awake, feeling rough and feverish.
Spent Tuesday in bed but still negative. Tuesday night I slept like a log, completely out for the count. Woke up feeling rested but very rough. Took another test and that showed as positive. Went online to book a PCR test but none available in the whole of Herts. Awesome. Postal test ordered - which arrived and was posted back today.
I’ve been feeling pretty rotten - like flu and a bad hangover combined. Not got much of an appetite but am forcing myself to eat. And I’m drinking litre after litre of squash. So damn thirsty. 3 days in bed so far, occasionally pop down stairs for supplies but it wipes me out very quickly.
Wife is still suffering too. She looks a little brighter today but it doesn’t take much to wear her out and she’s then back to bed for a sleep.
Luckily we have a good support network nearby - still have a street WhatsApp group from the first wave who are happy to help.
We’re both double jabbed and escaped it previously- eldest son caught it during the summer but didn’t pass it on to anyone else in the house. He’s had a single jab now. Both kids are back in school… we’d have kept them off but school insisted they should be in. Hopefully they don’t pick anything up. 🤞
Hopefully they don’t pick anything up. 🤞
At home or at school?! Seems mad that school want them in with 2 cases in the household.
Both.
Yep, the school’s decision seems pretty reckless to us.
I had a positive PCR about 5 weeks ago, felt really rough for a week (in bed, sleeping, sweating and aching)
I'd been fine for the last 4 weeks, back on the bike etc but Wednesday just past I started feeling ropey again, coughing, tired etc.
I've been told not to bother with LFT test within 90 days.
I did a PCR test yesterday which has come back positive.
Question is this, have I got reinfected (omicron variant?) or has the original infection sneaked up on me again?
We were told not to do a PCR within 90 days as you'd mostly get a positive and by law have to isolate again.
I kind of wish I'd got that message because (like everyone) I'd rather not be isolating again. However I am feeling rough so best to be on the safe side.
Mrs tested postive last week via pcr, shes been in isolation since wednesday, we both had symptoms but I kept testing negative. We've been testing daily as we're living with her eldery parents between houses, this morning i test postive on an LFT, booked PCR straight away. No symptoms anymore for me but shes lost her taste and still coughing etc.
I'm isolating in 1 room, shes in another, her 10 days are up on xmas day so at least one of us will get to spend it with the kids.
Anybody know any guidance on 2 people isolating with different stages/times of a postive test?
Hi kids. Me and my OH would like to join your club. (For some value of "like.")
I've come down with a cold, had my booster, tested positive via LFT, and just home now from a PCR all in the space of about three days.
Having tested + on the 23rd & spent Xmas in isolation I’ve just tested - today for the 1st time since. Suffered from headaches, fatigue & dizziness & that very weird spaced out feeling. Only thing left now is the fatigue but bloody hell, I feel like I’ve just a done bloody stage race! I’m ****ed!
I felt rough on the evening of the 29th, did a LFT which was positive, got a PCR yesterday that, confirmed the positive result this morning. So far a headache and a few coughs and sneezes, hopefully that's all I get but the next few days will tell.
I'm assuming not (or if I have had it it was non-symptomatic) although quite how I've managed to avoid it is a mystery as it seems quite prevalent. Was back in the office maybe one day a week for a while and during that time a few colleagues came down with it at the same time although that was traced back to a day when they were all in together (I wasn't there that day).
I guess the riskiest thing was Christmas - first at my Mum's and then taking her up to my sister's. We've all been relatively sensible though in terms of not meeting too many people, doing regular LFTs, and we'd all had our boosters by mid-December at the latest.
I'm sort of "soft-isolating" at the moment, have no desire to go out anywhere to pubs etc and shopping trips are kept short and in quiet times. However I'm sort of resigned to the fact that I'll probably end up with it at some point, cases seem to be rising dramatically.
https://www.sactownmag.com/uc-davis-microbiome-expert-jonathan-eisen-on-omicron/
American magazine article on Omicron, guidance on how to avoid etc. Good read.
Just getting ready to head out to friends for the new year. None of us feeling anything. Took lateral flow tests just for peace of mind. Wife showed +ve!
New year plans rapidly cancelled and off to the supermarket to find something to eat depending on availability. Not going to be a bumper celebration this year!!!!
wife tested positive on monday with an lft after feeling rotten. pcr next day confirmed it. i tested on wednesday and had a pcr yesterday, both positive. daughter has avoided both of us by working and hiding in her room and is still negative so buggered off round her friends for nye. shes been doing lfts since monday
According to that article, the Omicron variant virus is spread by aerosols.
Damn you, autocorrect?
I received notification of a position PCR this morning, and now my 9yo daughter has a positive LTF. We may as well assume the whole household has it I guess.
I'm a bit worried about her without vaccines etc TBH.
At least you won't have to isolate yourself from the rest of your family now.
Well, Mrs K and 12yo Jnr are still testing negative. He's supposed to go outdoor go-karting next Thursday for his 13th birthday, we'll see.
Following the mild symptoms I had a few days ago, today I feel absolutely normal. No symptoms at all. I assume I've had the Omicron variant.
Mrs Diz is still testing negative on the LFTs as are others I came into contact with before my symptoms developed.
Mrs joat had a positive LFT Saturday, mine was negative, so we both had PCR yesterday afternoon, hers came back positive this afternoon mine still negative. So what are the chances of me succumbing in the next day or two? It was probably picked up from her Niece who tested positive the day we had both seen her, nobody else has tested positive after seeing her (the Niece) though. Seems a bit random and against predictions if it's Omicron.
1 x -ve LFT on 26th,
1 x -ve LFT on 2nd,
2 x +ve LFT’s today (3rd)and feeling rough.
Awaiting result of drive through PCR this evening.
Absolutely NO contacts since 27th apart from being all masked up in Aviemore Tesco on 31st when it was rammed with holiday makers.........
Mrs joat had a positive LFT Saturday, mine was negative, so we both had PCR yesterday afternoon, hers came back positive this afternoon mine still negative.
Depending on when you get tested, they are only somewhere between 95-70% reliable. We had covid November 2020 and I never tested positive but p20 did and I felt rough for 10 days and had long covid for a year. Just take it easy.
Absolutely NO contacts since 27th apart from being all masked up in Aviemore Tesco on 31st when it was rammed with holiday makers………
So you have been in contact with others then...
So you have been in contact with others then…
Not necessarily, easy enough to mingle with others without them becoming a contact.
What is meant by a contact
A contact is a person who has been close to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. You can be a contact any time from 2 days before the person who tested positive developed their symptoms (or, if they did not have any symptoms, from 2 days before the date their positive test was taken) and up to 10 days after – as this is when they can pass the infection on to others. A risk assessment may be undertaken to determine this, but a contact can be:
anyone who lives in the same household as another person who has COVID-19 symptoms or has tested positive for COVID-19
anyone who has had any of the following types of contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19:
face-to-face contact including being coughed on or having a face-to-face conversation within one metre
been within one metre for one minute or longer without face-to-face contact
been within 2 metres of someone for more than 15 minutes (either as a one-off contact, or added up together over one day)
A person may also be a close contact if they have travelled in the same vehicle or plane as a person who has tested positive for COVID-19.
^exactly 🙂
^^ making a point about how quickly and easily this is spreading despite people (myself included)taking precautions ie masking up, keeping to distancing recommendations etc. Given I got it having spent less than 10 minutes in a shop adhering to the above it’s no wonder the positive figures are rocketing 🙄
Not necessarily, easy enough to mingle with others without them becoming a contact
Erm, the virus doesn’t limit itself to contacts as defined on the gov website !
Can I ask a genuine question and I only want to know the answer on a personal level believe me!
What type of mask were you wearing, a "face covering" or a surgical/ ffp2 etc etc type mask?
Thanks, I've got no agenda behind asking, I'm purely asking to help with my own scenario.👍
When I say mask I actually use a buff. It’s a type that we are all issued with when going offshore for work as we have to wear them at all times when transferring via helicopter and when in any areas with other people as a condition of employment. They have some chemical impregnation (sorry can’t recall what) and are double layered. Worn right up over nose and ears, down over neck. Cheers
This isn't a dig, they are the worst type of "mask", regular fibres (big gaps) and hard to remove without potentially putting the exterior "infected" part onto your mucus membranes.
Aye, that’s maybe fair enough given the outcome!
Although not like your regular buff, really tight material,layered up, covering a large area, certainly seemed a better option than the cloth ones most people seem to be wearing!
Erm, the virus doesn’t limit itself to contacts as defined on the gov website !
No shit! Really!
Just got a positive LFT Bugger! Seems like half the people we were with on NYE in the local tested positive either yesterday or today.
Son's girlfriend was staying with us and she tested pos yesterday, I felt a bit sh1t even though I got a neg LFT yesterday so went for a PCR. Not had PCR results yet but booked another one for tomorrow in case yesterday was too early to pick it up like the LFT.
Just tested +ve via LFT this morning, PCR booked this afternoon. Woke up with what I guess must be sinusitis (never had a pain behind my nose before), so took a test.
Feeling pretty groggy....
Out Sunday group ride had 20 riders so we split at the cafe stop to use various different cafes which were all pretty busy - pretty sure that was where I picked it up.
Day 6 of isolation here. Annoyingly I feel ok, it's just like having a mild cold. I tested this morning and still showing two lines so I am not escaping the house just yet.
Annoyingly I feel ok, it’s just like having a mild cold.
Me and the misses had it between Chrstmas and New Year. Like you it presented as a mild head cold.
After all this time, I've finally caught it!
I've done pretty well to avoid it so far after changing jobs over 7 months ago. I went for having my own corner with a desk and PC in a spacious warehouse, to visiting all sorts of homes and businesses.
Recently though I've found that the majority (including staff) just aren't that arsed about wearing masks anymore. Tested positive on 2 x LFT Saturday/Sunday. Just sat here now waiting for my PCR to be posted through the door.
Had a rough throat on Saturday, then that had cleared by Sunday. Then it was a slight runny nose, aches and a fever Sunday. Yesterday and today I don't feel too bad. The cold I had before Christmas felt far worse than this.
Mostly gutted for the new bike I built on Saturday night that's still unridden 🙂
Double jabbed and I was literally just going to book my booster but I'll have to wait 6 weeks I guess now?
So I've tested positive again
Has anyone else caught it three times??
I've had it last January, November and now again- just a scratchy throat and cold like symptoms
Is there a loyalty card so i get a stamp for each variant?
Have any of us actually caught the Coronavirus yet then?
No. Not had any particularly nasty colds, either; a bit of a sniffle, the occasional sneezing fit, a slightly stuffy nose, but I’ve managed to stay free of most respiratory lurgies for a couple of years or so.
There’s some evidence to suggest that regular doses of vitamin D can help with such things, and I was ‘encouraged’ by my late partner to take it, and I’ve stuck with it. No idea if it’s helped, but along with wearing a mask, it’s not going to hurt, and vitamin D is certainly of benefit for various things.
I tested positive on a single LFT a fortnight ago (had a sore throat and a dose of conjunctivitis for two weeks before that) with no other symptoms. Incredibly faint line on the test and I needed to use my phone camera to see it.
Triple vaccinated. Felt fine then, but now just feel tired all the time and when I hop on my bike I feel like I've already ridden 50 miles.
It's doing my head in. So glad I didn't catch full-blown COVID before the vaccine was developed because I think it would have smashed me.
Oh yeah, the conjunctivitis thing is interesting. It actually led me away from the COVID suspicion as I was testing negative every day, so I was quite surprised to be specifically asked about it during the track and trace process.
